I am grateful to Jalopnik, which discovered that a lovely Fisker Karma is slightly less lovely today, after it appears to have set itself alight.

I don't think it was a protest against continued ignorance of global warming, though local fire crew in Woodside, Calif., are currently mystified as to why the Fisker lost its karma and simply flambeed.

No one appears to have been hurt in this incident, which occurred when the owner went into a local grocery store and emerged a while later to discover that she might have to walk home.

A little local sleuthing suggests that the owner might be a film consultant, whose husband might work for a venture capital company.

The geography of Woodside is quite fortunate, as Robert's Market -- outside which the fire took place -- is but a few hundred yards from the local fire station.